On Sunday, 4 בOctober 2009 00:42:39 Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Saturday 03 Oct 2009 22:03:26 Oron Peled wrote: > > Shlomi, have you noticed you are the only one so far > > that consistently cross post to several mailing lists? > Yes, I'm sorry about that. I replied to an old email in my inbox after I > cleaned it up today, and hit reply-all. I'll try to avoid cross-posting > in the future.
That's what you said the last time. We'll see... > Nevertheless, I think that while distributors should keep the core > distribution free, they should be allowed to keep non-free software packages > that they consider important enough in separate "non-free" repositories, > without that making them less free. They are entitled to bundle non-free software (the mechanism isn't relevant) but calling them free operating systems is misleading. > I don't see why allowing people to conveniently install not-entirely-free > software that they need (after they were made aware of the implications) > will make it less free. If you don't see why bundling non-free software makes something *less* free you need new spectacles. > It's not as if the distributor encourages using it - it's > just part of giving a complete user-experience. Mandriva, Gentoo, Fedora, > Debian, Ubuntu, etc. are complete operating systems, and they should be as > comprehensive as possible. I can only speak about the distribution I use. Point to a single package with a non-free license in Fedora and I'll open the removal bug-report for you. Point to any official Fedora documentation/web-page with a URL of non-free repositories and I'll make sure it's gone. Obviously you are free (pun intended) to add any non-free software or repositories to any distribution including Fedora -- but in that case you chose to put your hands in the shackles. That's all folks, there's work to do... -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 [email protected] http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Where will Microsoft try to drag you today? Do you really want to go there? _______________________________________________ Discussions mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions
